For a long time when Power Automate came out, the integration points with Power BI were not great. Flows were prevented from doing almost anything useful with Power BI except for refreshing a dataset. Which is limited to 8 times a day. Microsoft took a step in the right direction Read more
One of the main use-cases that has always been a great candidate for the power platform is approval workflows. Using the ‘Approvals’ connector in Power Automate is usually the first method to use for this which has a handy Outlook integration that provides the user an interactive email that handles Read more
A near real-time dashboard view of agent and company performance with customizable filters to allow the user to select the combination of dates and metadata that they want to see.
PowerApps is an incredibly robust tool that allows developers to build a custom front end interface on top of any data source. One of the most powerful aspects of the tooling is a function called “User” that can give the developer options to personalize the UI based on a logged Read more
When beginning to use Power BI, one of the most common questions is always “Where do I go to get sample Power BI data I can use?”. Unless you are willing and able to create your own datasets, downloading an already generated dataset provides a helpful place to start. Thankfully Read more
Microsoft Forms being able to upload and handle individual files of up to 1 GB is a really nice feature of the software. Considering PowerApps file upload limit is 50 MB, Forms is a nice simplified alternative to consider when deciding which piece of software to use in different situations. Read more
Oftentimes as developers build more and more PowerApps, they keep seeing the same use cases and using the same patterns to fit those use cases. In such cases, if a developer finds themselves rebuilding the same thing over and over again it would save them time to build a reusable Read more
This is part 1 in a series of videos that build on top of each other related to tracking requests. Make sure to Check out Part 2 PowerApps Tutorial: Request Tracker – Comment History to follow along! One of the strengths of PowerApps is that it’s a blank slate to build Read more
Before building a custom component with PowerApps Component Framework make sure that you have Node.js, Visual Studio Code (or another IDE), and the most recent version of the PowerApps CLI downloaded. If you are missing any of these items please refer to Part 1 of this blog series which walks Read more
The PowerApps component framework (PCF) lets developers build re-usable code snippets called “Components” for model driven and canvas applications. The components can be used in multiple applications to enhance the user experience and drive a business use case. One of the examples I’ve run into is using the map functionality Read more